Looking Out For the Community: K-9 Unit Will Assist LPD in Multiple Ways

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The Lamar Police Department is well on its way to obtaining their first Police K9 (dog). With the strong support of the community the Lamar Police Department has obtained enough funding to purchase the K-9 and all equipment to get the K9 program running.

The highly trained K-9 that the Lamar Police Department is getting will be able to search for narcotics, be used for tracking, article identification, building searches, and apprehension of criminals. The police K-9 can search a building much faster and with greater accuracy than several officers combined. A police K-9 can search a building of 5,445 square feet in 1 minute average with 100% accuracy when it would take one officer 21 minute average with 83% accuracy.

The Lamar Police Department has taken a patrol car and equipped it with a special kennel which takes up the area of the rear seat of the car. This special kennel is equipped with an automatic door opener so the K-9 can be deployed if the officer needs help. The kennel and car are also equipped with a heat alert and guard system to keep the dog safe during the heat of the summer. The heat alert system will detect the kennel’s temperature and automatically roll down the vehicle windows and turn on a fan that is mounted on the kennel. If the temperature continues to rise an audible alarm will sound on the vehicle along with the lights flashing. The K-9 handler will have a unique pager that he can also see what the temperature is inside the kennel and the pager has an alarm to alert to the rising temperature.

The Lamar Police Department K-9 will be on duty 5 days a week and on-call for 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The Lamar Police Department K-9 will also be on-call for surrounding agencies and communities.

Looking Out For the Community is presented by local law enforcement agencies and The Lamar Ledger to promote public safety and awareness.